Populous
Platform: Amiga 500
Region: Europe
Media: Floppy
Controller: Mouse
Genre: Strategy - Isometric - Managerial
Gametype: Licensed
Release Year: 1989
Developer: Bullfrog Productions, Ltd.
Publisher: Electronic Arts, Inc.
Players: 1-2 Players
Relationship: Precursor to Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods
Hardware: OCS
Conversions: Acorn Archimedes, Atari ST, Fujitsu FM Towns, NEC PC Engine, NEC PC-98, Nintendo SNES (Super Famicom), PC (DOS), Sega Master System, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Sharp X68000
Disks: 1
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You play a god, gaming against other gods in a celestial game of conquest.  To win, you must help your chosen people take over the world and wipe out the vermin who worship that other god.

Each god starts out with a single human, dumped into the middle of the wilderness.  Sometimes there is inhabitable land in sight, sometimes not.  To get win, you must change the landscape, creating flat land for your followers to build on.  The more followers you have you have, the more powerful you will be, so take care of them. Build as fast as you can, because the other god is doing the same.

When you have enough followers, you can make the leader of your people into a hero.  He will then go around the land you have built, literally taking strength from the people into himself, and working his way toward the enemy.  When he gets there, he will engage in holy warfare upon your enemy's people.  He will burn; he will kill.  And he won't stop until they're all dead... or he is.

But you don't have to let your people have all the fun; the god's have other tools as well.  You can drown your enemies one at a time with your land lowering powers.  Submerge their towns in swamps. Raise a volcano in the middle of their best farmland.  Even better, you can flood the land and drain all the people who didn't build on high-ground. 

And when you win, you'll have 500 more worlds to conquer.  A god's play is just never done.
 
http://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/populous
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Populous: The Promised Lands
Release Year: 1989
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This Data Disk for Populous adds five new landscape types: Wild West, Silly Land, Block Land, R?volution Fran?aise and Bit Plains. The types can be used to create new maps in Paint Map mode and the disk also has 500 new maps for Conquest mode.
 
http://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/populous-the-promised-lands

Populous & The Promised Lands
Release Year: 1993
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A double pack of the original classic God-sim Populous, and the Promised Lands data disk, which adds five new worlds, each with a distinctly different setting to the main game.
 
http://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/populous-the-promised-lands-

Populous: The Final Frontier
Release Year: 1989
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Data Disk for Populous. This adds a single new landscape with 500 levels to Populous. The landscape is themed as to be based on another planet. The colonists from Earth follow your god, and the indigenous inhabitants of the planet follow the enemy god. As usual build, multiply and conquer.
 
http://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/populous-the-final-frontier
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CHEATS: 
	
Level 999: Type killuspal at the title screen.

Hidden monsters: 
Place the maximum of 200 people on the landscape to
force one of the three hidden monsters to appear. 

Easy victory:
Load a conquest game as usual, then click on the game
setup icon. Select "Custom Game" and enter the game
options and set them as desired. Click on "Evil", then
"Two Players", and then cancel your selection. Your
opponent will now be unable to alter the landscape and progress
in the game.


